Server-side seed in root beforeLoad?

[icy herald]

create a server function and randomly choose in it

the issue is isomorphism. if you run on the server there is no isomorphism

again, if not choosing on the server, then generate the seed on the server so that the client has the same seed from then on

not necessarily, if you're caching the seed with, say, tanstack query, then you only need a single network request on first load

from then on, they share the same initial random seed

meaning that each time you generate a new random on the server and the client, at the same time, they will be the same

you HAVE to have at least one network request anyway

and that's not a tanstack start specific problem

in any case, i think just choosing on the server and sending that choice to the client is just the best and simplest way to do it

the seeding idea was just that, an idea

btw Math.random default seed is a unix time code